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Record supplies there. There were three boats that were made specially for us at Waukeegan, Illinois, 22 feet long, 3 1/ 2 feet beam and 22 inches deep, quarter- decked all around, built of oak with hickory ribs, a life line around the outside, and with ten water tight compartments in the bottom for loading. They drew from 15 to 18 1410 inches loaded. I do not know how many pounds of supplies there were. The boats were loaded full with just enough room for the men to work. We put the boats on the Colorado River at the mouth of 1411 Crescent Creek, which is a few miles below the Dirty Devil or about at Dandy crossing. We hauled our boats from Greenriver down to the 1412 mouth of Crescent Creek. We passed through no towns and we did not see any ranches or any people in that stretch. 1413 On the first trip the surveyors run a line along the river bank on the left hand side going down. The entire survey was in the canyon. My work was to photograph the surveyors' line so that the photographs could be placed in the surveyors' notes and the people could see what character of country it would have to go through if it were built. 1414 We shipped our supplies and boats overland to Crescent Greek because we did not want a second dose of Cataract canyon, and also to save time. We arrived at Crescent Greek on December 6th and left there December 10th. We stopped at Pickaboo rapid. At Trachyte one of the boats sprung at little leak. It didn't amount to anything but we camped and fixed it. We stopped where Rite was living, at his placer mine, a day. We started down the river again and had some trouble with gravel bars, a little more than we had the first time, because the water was lower. We stopped at Smith Brothers ranch in the canyon but no one was home. There were place miners at work in the canyon. Between Crescent Greek and Lees Ferry we saw only boats that belonged to the miners. They were just row boats. |
